Parts Usually Used

Description of Plant(s) and Culture

Asarum Europaeum
Asarum is a perennial, evergreen plant; a low plant with a horizontal,
creeping rootstock and prostrate stem. Two long-petioled, upright,
shiny, leathery, dark green leaves grow from each bud on the stem,
rising from 2-4 inches above the ground. The large, solitary flowers
appear from March to May and are characterized by a green-brown color
on the outside, reddish-black on the inside.

Asarum canadense L.
Asarum canadense is a perennial plant; the knobby, root of the plant
is round and fleshy, with dividing stem supporting a heart-shaped,
deep green above and a light green below, soft, woolly and handsomely
veined leaf, there being two to a plant. A single flower is small
and brownish-purple, growing only a few inches high and covered by
the dead leaves that carpet the woods. The taste is pungent and bitter.